- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; 1st Edition 1st Printing edition (7 Aug 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002261693
- ISBN-13: 978-0002261692
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,196,990 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tree of Pearls is the final instalment in the Evangeline Gower trilogy. Louisa Young's heroine is as slangy and stroppy but she has a gloriously romantic heart, something often missing from the other literary modern misses. Evangeline's tender passion embraces her daughter Lily, the five-year-old "octopus of love"; the two men in her life, mysterious tempting Sa'id and long, tall Harry, all cheekbones and louche cockiness. Evangeline, ex- belly dancer and single mother, has attitude and intelligence, and a glorious understanding of what makes life worth the living. Once again Evangeline has Eddie Bates on her case. This psychopathic villain caused strife in Desiring Cairo, and his sinister shadow once again draws her to Cairo and Luxor to sort him out once and for all. She' s accompanied by his ex-wife Chrissie, and her own romantic dilemmas: Harry or Sa'id, Sa'id or Harry. The story unfolds slowly and gracefully, with a gorgeous sound track for the heartache and dangerous events: "and then, oh glorious joy, Umm Khalthoum singing Enat Omri--You Are My Life. Whenever I hear it my backbone grows longer and my foot arches, I begin to sway and to feel a mild but definite yearning for the weight of a heavily sequinned band around my hips."
Louisa Young doesn't stick to a plain old story but allows Evangeline digression and musings that shimmer and sparkle. She contemplates mythology, the colours of the landscape and the sky, the rapture in Egyptian love songs. Tree of Pearls is seductive, romantic and realistic. Evangeline Gower is redeemed by love but remains strong and independent, and in control of her own life: "I close no doors, I send love. I am not wasting away for you." --Eithne Farry
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on Louisa Young’s trilogy:
‘Spectacularly worth reading’
The Times
‘Tough, tender, sexy, funny’
Esther Freud
‘Hits an all too rare note of intelligent escapism’
She
‘Streetwise and literate’
Options
‘Wry, perky, entertaining’
The Observer
‘Engaging, wise-cracking, likeable, brilliantly sustained… funny, humane and utterly readable’
Good Housekeeping
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
My favourite book,
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This review is from: Tree of Pearls (Paperback)
Louisa Young's prose is beautiful and so well-crafted that it seems effortless. Her characters are human and believable and so much of her writing about feelings and relationships strikes a real chord with me. I read this book in a day, despite having a million other things to do and find it inconceivable that other readers wouldn't enjoy it!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A novel of exotic adventure and intrigue,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tree of Pearls (Paperback)
Tree of Pearls is a first-person narration by Angeline Gower, an ex-belly dancer with an Egyptian lover and a past lover/enemy named Eddie Bates who has illegally entered Britain. In order to track Eddie down and finally get some peace, Angeline goes back to Egypt to find out why he came to Britain. The story itself is quite boring and the writing undistinguished. One problem with the first person narration is that the characters are seen only through Angeline's eyes and as a result never attain a voice of their own. Such solipsism sometimes has its place, but unfortunately, Angeline makes the reader into her confidant, often explaining motivations which were better left unsaid. As a result, there is no subtlety, only Angeline's garishly obvious voice.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Boring,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tree of Pearls (Paperback)
This is a badly written and unconvincing story. I was particularly irritated by the gratuitous over-use of four-letter words. It's a book that goes nowhere. If you want to read a travelog of Egypt then some parts might interest you but the rest of it is superficial. I haven't read the other books in this trilogy and I have no desire to do so.
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